Upgrading Bash on macOS

Daniel Weibel
ITNEXT
Published in
7 min readJan 13, 2019

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One thing that many macOS users don’t know is that they are using a completely outdated version of the Bash shell. However, it is highly recommended to use a newer version of Bash on macOS, because it enables you to use useful new features. This article explains how to do this.

Default Bash Version on macOS

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